Re: Pseudonym in Subject DN (in QC certificates)

["David Chadwick" <d.w.chadwick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stefan wrote

> Taking this into consideration I think that we should go forward and
> include the pseudonym attribute.
> This will force us to expand the set of supported attributes compared to
> RFC 2459 and also to add matching rules for this attribute.

You do not need to define any new matching rules if you make the 
syntax of pseudonyms the same as commonName, and use the 
same matching rules as for commonName. Then all you are doing is 
attaching a new meaning to the value that was previously called a 
commonName but was really a pseudonym in disguise.

David
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